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Athyr, in the reign of the King ever-living, to (complete) the third part: likewise the half of one-third of the collections relating to
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Through all the pomp and glamour with which in later times the priests had invested his worship, the conception of him as the corn-god comes clearly out in the festival of his death and resurrection, which was celebrated in the month of Khoiak and at a later period in the month of Athyr.
Chapter 40. The Nature of Osiris. § 1. Osiris a Corn-god 1922
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This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr, when the sun is in the sign of the Scorpion, and in the eight-and-twentieth year of the reign or the life of Osiris.
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This happened on the seventeenth day of the month Athyr, when the sun is in the sign of the Scorpion, and in the eight-and-twentieth year of the reign or the life of Osiris.
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Thus Plutarch tells us that Osiris was murdered on the seventeenth of the month Athyr, and that the Egyptians accordingly observed mournful rites for four days from the seventeenth of Athyr.
Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris. § 2. The Official Rites 1922
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Thus Plutarch tells us that Osiris was murdered on the seventeenth of the month Athyr, and that the Egyptians accordingly observed mournful rites for four days from the seventeenth of Athyr.
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The Egyptians call it Athyr, the Athenians Pyanepsion, the Boeotians the month of Demeter ....
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The Egyptians call it Athyr, the Athenians Pyanepsion, the Boeotians the month of DemeterÂ….
Chapter 39. The Ritual of Osiris. § 1. The Popular Rites 1922
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Through all the pomp and glamour with which in later times the priests had invested his worship, the conception of him as the corn-god comes clearly out in the festival of his death and resurrection, which was celebrated in the month of Khoiak and at a later period in the month of Athyr.
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` ` This happened, '' says Plutarch, ` ` on the 17th of the month Athyr, when the sun enters into the Scorpion '' (the sign of the Zodiac which indicates the oncoming of Winter).
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